Kung INDIVIDUAL REPORT National Branding and Corporate Scandals [pic][pic] [pic] [pic] By George MANG Student Number: 53002615 City University of Hong Kong Year 2012 Table of Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………… 3 2. China National Brand Building and “Soft Power”………………………..... 4 3. From Manufacturing Factory to Research and Development Centre……... 5 4. China’s Counterfeit Merchandise and Food Scandals……………………… 6 5. China’s Financial Markets Bottleneck………………………………………
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to the trading of energy related financial products such as derivatives. Enron looked like a great company that makes a lot of profit however‚ in 2001‚ after the firm’s accounting fraud went public‚ the company filed for bankruptcy. After Enron Scandal‚ in 2002‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed to prevent potential financial fraud. This act regulate the accounting standard and especially its transparency‚ as follows. • All companies must have a majority of independent directors. • Independent
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unprecedentedpower. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certaincountries‚ while in the United States many see an other significance:Watergate‚ Whitewater‚ Kennedy’s brutal and mysterious assassination‚ andtoday‚ Clinton’s "zippergate" scandal. When the President of the United Statestakes oath‚ he gives up a part of his life. His private life becomes thepublic’s life‚ and they feel the right to know what happens behind the OvalOffice. Now the Presidency must battle against Newspaper journalists
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accurate financial reports that are useful to managers‚ regulators and other stakeholders such as shareholders‚ creditors or owners (Financial Accounting Info‚ 2006). Inefficiencies in the processes of accounting may amount to a professional scandal. Accounting scandals or fraud can be explained in various ways. Accounting fraud is a deliberate and improper manipulation of the recording of sales revenue and/or expenses in order to make a company ’s profit performance appear better than it actually
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the Enron stock price‚ one of the consistent themes of the film is the scandals and the lies behind the company’s success. The film separates each scandal and builds off that scandal to show how Enron was able to manipulate the public into believing its greatness. The name Enron is now synonymous with fraud; the reality is that greedy smart people created the tragedy. The film examines the fraud starting with the Enron Oil trading scandal‚ the tenure of CEO Jeff Skilling‚ the mystery of Enron executive
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Steve Johnson 06-13-2011 The Rampart Scandal The Rampart Scandal is about a widespread corruption in the community resources against street hoodlums or better known as “CRASH” anti-gain unit of the LAPD Rampart division in the late 1990’s. More than 70 police officers in the CRASH unit were implicated in misconduct‚ making it one of the worst cases of documented police misconduct in US history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings‚ unprovoked beatings‚ planting of evidence
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The Jerry Sandusky scandal involved his involvement with abusing young boys and men in 2010 (Crandall‚ Parnell‚ & Spillan‚ 2013). Since the trial and Sandusky’s conviction of 45 counts of child abuse in 2012‚ there has been more information about case. Since the 2012 trial‚ Sandusky requested for a new trial or for the dismissal of his charges‚ however‚ it was denied (Scolforo‚ 2017). Sandusky still says he is innocent and wrongly convicted. Joe Paterno‚ the Head Football Coach at Penn State during
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COMPUTER HACKING AND CYBER CRIME LAW History of Hacking According to (Clifford R.D. 2006) a cracker or cracking is to "gain unauthorized access to a computer in order to commit another crime such as destroying information contained in that system". These subgroups may also be defined by the legal status of their activities. Eric S. Raymond (author of The New Hacker’s Dictionary) advocates that members of the computer underground should be called crackers. Yet‚ those people see themselves as hackers
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CORPORATE ACCOUNTING SCANDAL AT SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED BACKGROUND Ironically‚ Satyam means “truth” in the ancient Indian language “Sanskrit” (Basilico et al.‚ 2012). Satyam won the “Golden Peacock Award” for the best-governed company in 2007 and in 2009. From being India’s IT “crown jewel” and the country’s “fourth largest” company with high- profile customers‚ the outsourcing firm Satyam Computers has become embroiled in the nation’s biggest corporate scam in living memory (Ahmad
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in the midst of the situation. People are often quick to judge others and label people who do not respond as “bad people.” However‚ there are other situations to consider. The Penn State University scandal‚ for example‚ hid the horrendous
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